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I’ve just received my “Wacom Intuos PT S 2″ digitizer tablet – aka graphics tablet – which I had specifically bought, because there is some support for the Wacom series of tablets under Linux. I was able to get it working 100%, and also did get the ‘wireless kit’ to work, that I had ordered with it.

Under Linux, we need to have at least these two packages installed, in order to get this hardware to work:

‘xserver-xorg-input-wacom’

‘libwacom2′

If available, the following should also be installed:

‘libwacom-bin’

Additionally I should mention that I did this on the Debian / Stretch computer I name ‘Plato’, on which I have Plasma 5 as my desktop manager. Although Debian and Linux do support Wacom, apparently, Plasma 5 as such does not. This effectively means that individual applications may have tablet-support, but that We’re not given a graphical module for the System Settings panel, from which to customize our tablet. For that reason, I needed to write a shell-script which does this for me:

Presumably, any other users with Plasma 5 desktop-managers will need to write similar scripts. Simply typing in the command ‘xsetwacom’ without any arguments, will display its basic usage.

It should also be noted, that after an X-server module has been installed, that will act as the input driver, at the very least, the X-server also needs to be restarted, before that driver will be loaded.